James Kirchick

James Kirchick (; born 1983) is an American reporter, foreign correspondent, and columnist. 2Career James Kirchick attended Yale University, and wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington; prior to this, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy. While he remains a contributing editor for TNR, Kirchick’s reportage has appeared in The Weekly Standard, The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Prospect. He writes frequently for newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Ha'aretz. Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure, Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, and World Affairs, among others. Kirchick is a contributing writer to the Advocate, and has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award. 2Ron Paul newsletters In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Pau